Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting golang-misc package, versions <0:1.10.6-1.48.amzn1


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Amazon Linux security rating

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    2.31% (90th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-AMZN201803-GOLANGMISC-1716696
  • published 27 Sep 2021
  • disclosed 24 Jan 2019

How to fix?

Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2018.03 golang-misc to version 0:1.10.6-1.48.amzn1 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS-2019-1172.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream golang-misc package and not the golang-misc package as distributed by Amazon-Linux. See How to fix? for Amazon-Linux:2018.03 relevant fixed versions and status.

Go before 1.10.8 and 1.11.x before 1.11.5 mishandles P-521 and P-384 elliptic curves, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) or possibly conduct ECDH private key recovery attacks.